“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”

― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”

― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Fre

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”

― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

― Robert Frost

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

― Gordon B. Hinckley

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”

― C. JoyBell C.

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

― Aristotle

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”

“I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”

“Never stop wandering into wonder.”

“It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”

“We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift—a chance to experience love, joy, compassion, and security —it is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don't feel so wonderful.”

“WONDERLAND

It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder

That sets them on their initial quest for truth.

The more doors you open, the smaller you become.

The more places you see and the more people you meet,

The greater your curiosity grows.

The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander.

The more you wander, the greater the wonder.

The more you quench your thirst for wonder,

The more you drink from the cup of life.

The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become.

The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel.

And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding.

And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences.

And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective,

And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance.

Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel.

And the smaller you feel, the greater you become.

The more you see, the more you love --

The more you love, the less walls you see.

The more doors you are willing to open,

The less close-minded you will be.

The more open-minded you are,

The more open your heart.

And the more open your heart,

The more you will be able to

Send and receive --

Truth and TRUE

Unconditional

LOVE.”

“To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.”

“I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by without enjoying it. There won’t be any more merry-go-rounds. No more cotton candy. No more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you, Martin, that this is the wonderful time. Now! Here! That’s all. That’s all I wanted to tell you.”

“how wonderful if something that only be existed in wishful thinking, comes and expresses themselves without being asked forcefully; but alas, i'm too immersed in the excitement until i don't realize that it's only temporarily, not forever”

“He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.”